TERRACE STEPS AND RETAINING WALLS TO GARDENS OF SOUTH FRONT OF WORTLEY HALL

TERRACE STEPS AND RETAINING WALLS TO GARDENS OF SOUTH FRONT OF WORTLEY HALL, WORTLEY PARK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1192640
Date first listed:: 04-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:: TERRACE STEPS AND RETAINING WALLS TO GARDENS OF SOUTH FRONT OF WORTLEY HALL
Statutory Address:: TERRACE STEPS AND RETAINING WALLS TO GARDENS OF SOUTH FRONT OF WORTLEY HALL, WORTLEY PARK

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1192640
Date first listed:: 04-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:: TERRACE STEPS AND RETAINING WALLS TO GARDENS OF SOUTH FRONT OF WORTLEY HALL
Statutory Address 1:: TERRACE STEPS AND RETAINING WALLS TO GARDENS OF SOUTH FRONT OF WORTLEY HALL, WORTLEY PARK

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For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: TERRACE STEPS AND RETAINING WALLS TO GARDENS OF SOUTH FRONT OF WORTLEY HALL, WORTLEY PARK

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District:: Barnsley (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Wortley
National Grid Reference:: SK3129199453

Details

SK39NW 4/133

WORTLEY WORTLEY PARK Terrace steps and retaining walls to gardens of south front of Wortley Hall

GV II

Terrace steps and retaining walls. Probably early C19, for the Wortley Hall estate. Rock-faced and ashlar sandstone. 2 sets of steps to each terrace on west side of garden, the southern steps set on the cross-axis in line with central fountain (q.v.) and a double flight of steps down to eastern terrace. A linked retaining wall lines the east side of the garden and returns in a rounded-ended projection which links with terrace immediately to front of house and itself has a double flight of steps down to eastern terrace. Steps: nosed treads set between ashlar copings with blocks set at head and foot. Upper flight of steps at east end of cross-axis is flanked by rusticated round-headed openings and coped side walls, from these the retaining wall returns in quadrants. Round-ended projection at north-east corner of garden has rock-faced walling with projecting piers and moulded copings surmounted by gadrooned vases. Lady Caroline Creighton, wife of James Archibald Stuart Wortley, is credited with the surviving early C19 landscape scheme seen at Wortley Hall.

Wortley Hall, Labour's Home - 25 Years Souvenir, booklet p17.

Listing NGR: SK3129199453

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Wortley Hall Labours Home 25 Years Souvenir Booklet,

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.